Library Rock's Backpages

Randy Newman: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA.

Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, July 1972

THIS GUY GAVE me a ride once, back when I was going to UCLA. He was pretty laconic, but under my expert employment of hitchhiker's conversational gambits I did elicit the information that he was finishing up as a music student there and had written some songs, like ‘I Think It's Going to Rain Today’, which Judy Collins and Eric Burdon and the Animals had recorded.

Total word count of piece: 1037

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.